The days of activists digging their claws into the Department of Justice are finished.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a brutal message to the US attorney who resigned last week rather than signing on to drop the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

In the 8-page letter, he said that the Department of Justice, which Attorney General Pam Bondi now heads, would “not tolerate the insubordination and apparent misconduct reflected in the approach” that the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon took in the case.

“You lost sight of the oath that you took when you started at the Department of Justice by suggesting that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General,” Bove said in the correspondence.

“It is not for local federal officials such as yourself, who lack access to all relevant information, to question these judgments within the Justice Department’s chain of command,” Bove added.

In her letter of resignation, Sassoon said that dismissing Adams’ indictment would not be consistent with her “ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.”

“I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel and without my direct input on the ultimate stated rationales for dismissal,” she said.

U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Hagan Scotten, also tendered his resignation last week with a blistering letter in which he said that any assistant U.S. attorney “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way.”

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” he said. “But it was never going to be me.”